Interaction and information about the Lausanne movement and congress

My friend Steve Hayes put a great post on his blog about information underload and information overload.  In short Steve is a prominent missiologist but did not hear very much about the Edinburgh 2010 Missions conference.  

In order to avoid something similar for the third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization I decided to put a comment on his blog, and post that comment here, to point any interested persons to a few places where you can interact and find information about the Lausanne Movement and the upcoming congress in Cape Town.

Part of my point is that a 'congress' will not be enough to truly help the cause of reaching the whole world with the whole Gospel.  A group of scholars and leaders are simply not connected enough to people on the ground, and static papers could never compare to interactions and relationships around what it means to do evangelism in all of the different contexts across the world!  While preaching may be effective in one setting, social justice will be far more effective in others... I hope you get the idea?

Here's part of my comment:

I have an inkling, however, that published articles and conference papers are not the ‘way of the new world’ – rather people long to participate and engage around issues, making contributions rather than just listening to the contributions of others (usually ‘experts’ rather than practitioners).

Lausanne is trying hard to have a ‘web presence’, and more importantly to create engagement around the issues of evangelism. (in fact I sent you an email to ask for your help – to your gmail address – I hope you got the email!).

Lausanne can be found in the following places:

Lausanne Web page: http://www.lausanne.org
Lausanne Blog: http://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-blog/
Lausanne Facebook Page: Lausanne Movement We have 2800 persons on this page.
Lausanne Twitter Page: @CapeTown2010 And if you follow us, we will follow you back!
Lausanne Social Networking platform (the Lausanne Conversation): Global Conversation
Lausanne articles and papers (called the Lausanne World Pulse): Lausanne World Pulse

You may be interested in the article that I wrote on social networking, new media, technology and evangelism.

The intention of our social networking efforts are to create connections and conversations around what it means to bring the whole Gospel to the whole world. The Global Conversation site has tens of thousands of persons of various Churches, theological backgrounds and geographic regions discussing, debating and acting up the contextual implementation of establishing God’s Kingdom.

Please can I invite you to copy and repost any of the information above on your blog!  Let's get talking, interacting and working for the establishment of God's transforming Kingdom on earth!